The children were very interested in minibeasts all afternoon- we turned over many a log and tree stump to see what was living below.
Aside from Forest School, the children's main project this week was to write their Legends of the Dragon, based on the incredible triptychs they created last week. The children were so keen to write and did a wonderful job; so much so that I'll be turning their legends into a book for the classroom.
In other learning this week:
Phonics:
Reception children revisited oi and ow, and focussed on spelling words with these sounds in. If you'd like to practice these, you can play some games of Boggle. You could set a timer and see how many words your child can build in 5 or 10 minutes, or have a race to see who can build the most words in that time. I'd recommend having them written out on cards so that your child can move them around (rather than 'in a row' as traditional Boggle is, I tend just to give the children cards and they can put them in any order they like).
Year 1 children looked at the ow/ou alternatives. They started a word search which we did not have time to finish - if you'd like to finish it for homework you can find it here.
The spelling list for next week's challenge is here.
Maths:
Maths has been all about money this week! We spent a lovely morning on Thursday setting up a lollypop and ice cream shop. The aim was for children to recognise the different coins. This is a really good one to practice at home either by setting up a shop yourself or by taking your child to an ice cream van, or similar, to use money in a real context.
Have a very good week end and I will see you next week!
From Miss Nash.
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